It is often the case that a cinematic venture into a wildly popular novel goes striking awry, and Thomas Alfredson’s The Snowman is no exception. Adapted from Jo Nesbø’s internationally bestselling thriller of the same name, screenwriters Peter Straughan and Hossein Amini seem to have missed the mark of the novel’s original allure. A complicated […]
Screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017 Song to Song is Terrence Malick’s eighth feature film since 1973, and his fourth to be released this decade alone. While it is true that his increased output coincides with a decline in quality, this seems almost inevitable. His first five films are all masterpieces. His last two efforts, […]
Smith’s film, Trespass Against Us, follows the unconventional lives of father and son, Colby and Chad Cutler: criminals who exist in a world divorced from mainstream society and the confines of the law. Set in a tight-knit traveler community in rural England, wherein family is paramount, this film focuses on the tension between the opposing […]
The Light Between Oceans is heart-breaking in its depiction of love, family and loss. It opens with the blissful encounter between the war-wearied Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) and the sparkling beauty Isabel Graysmark (Alicia Vikander), who saves Tom from his slow retreat into isolation and obscurity. Portraying an idealistic life on the secluded Janus Rock, Tom […]
The genre of films adapted from video games has a hard-earned reputation for being generally dismal. Time and again, Hollywood studio bosses have attempted cinematic alchemy by converting much-loved game titles into credible films that even have aspirations to achieve more than just tidy box office receipts. Invariably, the only thing worse than the […]